Is it time to privatise policing in Britain?

Tim Evans

So Home Secretary Theresa May is “destroying” the police — at least that’s what the Police Federation claimed yesterday. But the real problem is not that May’s reforms to pay and working conditions are too radical, it’s that they are nowhere near radical enough.

Officially, London is policed by four tax-funded forces — the Metropolitan Police, the City of London Police, the British Transport Police and to a much lesser extent the Ministry of Defence...

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